Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portrayal of firearms as "murderous little fixtures." One such fixture kept my wife from being raped several years ago. And the claim that firearms are a cause of the U.S.'s high violence rate is misinformed. Some countries with firearms ownership comparable to that of the U.S. have low crime rates, while nations with strict gun control can end up with high crime statistics. The fact is that income, racial tensions and education, among myriad other factors, contribute far more to crime than the availability of firearms. DAVID O. HUNT Sandusky, Ohio...
...American households have guns, it is a signal that people have given up on beating violent crime through conventional means. But that does not justify making guns more easily available. Owning a hunting rifle, securely storing it in separate pieces well away from children and using it only to shoot a yearly quota of deer is quite different from carrying a loaded 9-mm pistol in a shoulder holster for the drive to work. Parents who introduce their children to guns may first want to take them down to the morgue and show them the bullet-riddled body...
...four handguns, which I fire regularly at a range. I'm not an anti-gun wimp. In France there are stringent rules about gun ownership. France has urban crime, terrorist attacks and underprivileged minorities. Yet people here are not offing one another with guns at an alarming rate, and that's probably because it's not easy to get your hands on one. The n.r.a. and other mindless "patriotic" organizations that encourage the widespread proliferation of firearms are prime contributors to the U.S.'s shocking death toll. It would appear that Heston, who has run out of Saracens and Egyptians...
Together, the two share an almost palpable trust; the bond between the policemen seems more durable than ties of family. One is strong where the other is weak, and together they make a match for any crime ring in California. The Glover-Gibson partnership is also solid in less serious ways. Glover is a straight man of sorts to a more irrepressible Gibson, but both men have perfect timing when delivering the insulting, constant repartee that masks the deep affection between the two. Gibson and Glover turn the cops' bad habit of saving serious conversations for the middle of serious...
...with me that I would leave California for Israel of all places--or leave California for anywhere, for that matter. For them--and probably for many more people in America and elsewhere--the Beverly Hills of the television show is reality: everyone can wear nice clothes, there is little crime, no politics and no taxes, serious problems rarely arise and every day is eventful. Race and religion are never an issue, and everyone lives in a multi-story house with a yard, a garage and a pet or two. People don't die, they move to France...